The series has been both praised and criticized for its high level of game difficulty.
Players battle bosses to progress through the story, while interacting with strange non-playable characters. The Souls games are played in a third-person perspective, and focus on exploring interconnected environments while fighting enemies with weapons and magic. The series' creator, Hidetaka Miyazaki, served as director for each of them with the exceptions of Dark Souls II and the externally developed Demon's Souls remake. The series began with the release of Demon's Souls for the PlayStation 3 in 2009, and was followed by Dark Souls and its sequels, Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III, in the 2010s. Souls is a series of action role-playing games developed by FromSoftware.
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5
